We started at Whalebone and the swim-throughs were fantastic: filled with fish, sunbeams streaming down, bright orange coral cods hanging out on ledges, big rankin cod waiting at the exits. Sweetlips and emperors hung out under big ledges while longfin bannerfish, moorish idols, green parrotfish, 6 banded angelfish and blue-spot butterflyfish decorated the top of the reef. Fish, fish and more fish today!
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 12m
JL80 was next up and it was great! Again, fish were even more abundant than usual. There were quite a few bright yellow boxfish, big school of spangled emperor, a huge potato cod, good sized coral trout and solid walls of brick-red soldierfish. Thousands of tiny baitfish pressed close the reef helping to hide reluctant moray eels, hermit crabs and cleaner shrimp. We saw at least six different species of nudibrachs: two neon red Nembrotha kubaryana were having a bit of feast, too.
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 10m
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